badurinamarta Reviews

Girls: One Man's Trash (2013) Season 2, Episode 5

Feels unrealistic and off

[1/10 · 10 January 2024]

I haven't logged in IMDb in years and I disliked this episode so much that I just had to see what others thought. It just feels completely off that a beautiful, wealthy, older man with a gorgeous house would fall so easily for a girl like Hannah. This is nothing about her appearance, this is about the fact that she comes to him as a total mess - saying that she is the one throwing trash in his bin. The guy is a 42 year old doctor that looks so clean and put together and the way she says the whole thing is just ugh, its not cute, I just don't see it. If this was Marnie, it would make a lot more sense.

And then the whole rom com episode, of them being on the terrace while he's reading the newspaper and she's eating tangerines? Huh? Super off.

Designated Survivor (2016–2019)

Every episode is the same

[5/10 · 30 April 2020]

The first two seasons of this show are typical "FBI, government, conspiracy, etc" intriguing type of show that you end up watching on TV just because the TV was on. At least this is how I have started to watch it, accidentally, and I've found it interesting enough to binge watch it on Netflix during the quarantine. The show is definitely less interesting when you binge watch it, because you soon realise every episode is more or less the same. Something bad happens - the presidents says, "THAT SON OF A B*TCH" (honestly, you can count it, it's in every episode at least 3 times) and then he becomes a hero of the day after resolving the issue. Good guys win most of times. And yes, everyone is a traitor, but then in the end they're not.

So yeah, this is an okay show to watch with your dad after the news. However, the third season is horrible. Not sure what happened but all the sudden we get to see side stories, personal issues, sex scenes and family matters of every character. Not even the important characters, but suddenly, we watch a new intern having sex with a security guard. Completely unnecessary. So, if you want a show that is okay to watch, sometimes interesting, but most of the times just background noise while you scroll on your phone, then this is the show.

Love Wedding Repeat (2020)

Hard to watch :(

[3/10 · 20 April 2020]

Boring and very tense at the same time. Partly funny, but overall cringey. In my opinion, it had more potential.

Rams (2018)

Simple like him

[9/10 · 13 April 2020]

The movie is simple and enjoyable. It portraited Rams as a smart, lovable and an honest man.

Life Itself (2018)

Weird and beautiful at the same time?

[7/10 · 10 April 2020]

Read after watching.

Okay, I really liked some parts of the movie. The movie really does have a lot of layers. Some of them are beautiful, heart-warming, and really make you cry. I liked the parts when Will is talking about Abby to his psychiatrist, and when Samuel L. Jackson is a narrative, when the Spanish couple falls in love, etc, let's say those parts were well made.

So actually, the movie really started promising! And I liked the chapters idea, and how diverse they were. Especially the whole chapter in Spain was beautiful, and honestly probably my favourite. HOWEVER, once we are getting closer to the end, the worst movie becomes... Dylan's and Rodrigo's daughter telling their story, was somehow cheesy and as if I was watching a blogger trying to be inspirational. In my opinion, the last scene looks like a bad Shutterstock images from a motivational speaker video!! The end is just disappointing.

Why I still think it's worth watching - Because whenever I keep thinking about a movie after watching it, it is somehow an indicator that it did leave an impression. So yes, weird, disappointing and beautiful at the same time.

Tiger King (2020–2021)

Interesting while watching, but

[8/10 · 10 April 2020]

I really liked this series because it reminded it of the Michael Moore documentaries that I watched as a kid. I think it's well made, and that you can see that the director covered so many layers of the story and really put together the whole picture of everyone involved.

However, once you're done watching it, you just feel kinda sad that you watched all the ugly details about someone's life. You just get an empty feeling somehow. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I was expecting a happy ending, and I really liked the idea of everyone being able to tell their side.

IMO, when you first start, it's intriguing and fun, all you can think about is how crazy some parts of America are, and how diverse is their crazy culture. But then you just feel that this movie is gonna put so many more people in trouble? I don't know what to say. It's as if it was fun watching it, but you don't feel much after you are done with it.

Parasite (2019)

Incredible details and really unexpected twist

[10/10 · 10 April 2020]

I watched this film couple of months ago, so I'm not writing this review with a completely clear memory of everything that I loved about this movie. All I can say is that at least a week after watching it, I was still googling aaaaall the hidden meanings in certain scenes, all the interviews with the director, why they did some scenes in certain ways etc. This is how starstruck I was. Once I learned about all the layers, I could only conclude that this movie is a masterpiece! I had a class called "Visual culture" at my University and this movie would be perfect for the analysis of its visual language. And they show all the different relationships between rich and poor, happy and sad, right and wrong, in suuuuch a subtle way!! I really feel like people should write essays about this film.